SFF Sisters, Worldbuilding Women, and Princess Mononoke!

Plus Kicking Off the Grisha Reread! To view this email as a web page, go [here.] [Tor.com Newsletter] [Forward to a Friend] [BLOG] [ORIGINAL FICTION] [EXCERPTS] [Five Authors with Magical Worldbuilding Skills] "I doubt that anyone who's read any of my fiction will be surprised to learn that I like strong women, both in my own life and as characters and as authors. I expect most people would be unsurprised to discover that I like literary universes with strongly recognized world building and stories which explore individual responsibility, risk-taking, and price-paying characters. Or that I love the English language." [David Weber recommends the work of five authors] who fall within these parameters-add your own suggestions in the comments! SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] [Ghosts, Rivals, Pirates, Friends: 9 Recent SFF Books Starring Sisters] Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who are the most fantastic sisters of them all? Snow White often appears in stories all her own, but let's not forget about her sister Rose Red. The three Fates are sisters; in a departure from Frank L. Baum's original stories, Wicked imagined Oz's wicked witches as sisters; Cinderella, famously, had some rather troublesome stepsisters to contend with. [Here are nine current and upcoming takes on sisterly love]-and a bit of sisterly rivalry.  SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] [Introducing the Grisha Trilogy Reread: Shadow and Bone, Part One] What is it about Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy that so many people love? Is it the characters? The Russian flavor added to the fantasy world? The elemental powers of the Grisha? Kelsey Jefferson Barrett launches our newest reread to get to the bottom of these questions, starting [at the very beginning of Book I, Shadow and Bone]! SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] [Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt] Nisi Shawl continues her exploration of the History of Black Science Fiction with [a discussion of "The Goophered Grapevine]," a 19th-century story by African American author, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. The first story by an African American author published in a high-prestige "slick" magazine (The Atlantic ), the tale is clearly historically important, but is also filled with intriguing convolutions, ambiguity, and shifts in perspective.. SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] [Looking Back at Princess Mononoke After 20 Years] Princess Mononoke is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and Leah Schnelbach is more than ready to revisit and explore this classic work of animation: "Personally, I consider it Miyazaki's masterpiece, beyond even Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away. Since the film has been re-released in a few theaters, I want to look back at the movie, and talk about what I think is [the most remarkable aspect of a remarkable film]." SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] [Artwork by Anke Eissmann] [Free eBook Giveaway of Some of the Best from Tor.com 2016 Edition] We are very excited to offer a free download of the 2016 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of 25 of our favorite short stories and novelettes from the last year. [Readers worldwide can download the ebook for free] by signing up for the Tor.com Publishing newsletter from midnight EST on January 10th until 11:59 P.M. EST on January 17th. SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] NEW ORIGINAL FICTION [Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story, by S.B. Divya] Moena lives in a world of her own making, sealed off from the deadly pathogens of Bangalore in her own personal biome. But when she meets Rahul, a beautiful man working to clean up his city, her need for him draws her into danger. She will risk her health and her work to satisfy her lust for Rahul, and may find love along the way. SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook] [Publish to Twitter] Tweets From Tor.com Follow us on Twitter! [Tor.com] [@tordotcom] [9m] A roundtable of publishers and magazine editors talk about SFF in translation, from recent trends to upcoming works... 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